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  • edited January 2012
    So far Korea's pretty cool (literally and figuratively). Also, Korea University's library is a castle
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  • I am recovering from my cold :D
  • GeoGeo
    edited January 2012
    Just got a letter in the mail that said I made the Dean's List because of my consistently good grades. I'm excited about this because, if I keep on getting acceptable grades until I graduate from community college, my parents promised me that they will pay off the first year's semester when, or if, I get into film school.
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  • There were no arson attacks today. Hopefully this means the guy they arrested was the pyromaniac. I just hope he gets help.

    Context.
  • My costume design for the Guns of Icarus contest took second place!
    http://bijutsu-san.deviantart.com/#/d4lyrki
  • My costume design for the Guns of Icarus contest took second place!
    http://bijutsu-san.deviantart.com/#/d4lyrki
    Oh, that was you? I just read that on their FB page. Nice.

  • I finished the final edits on my NaNoWriMo 2011 novella, and will upload it tomorrow. I also plan to do an audio version of it, and I'll record that next week. This afternoon I read the entire thing out loud as I checked for spelling mistakes. It took almost four hours. Now my throat hurts a little bit.
  • edited January 2012
    Ain't no 1200m like 1200m up a mountain at night (never mind that 1km in the wrong direction). View at the top of Seoul all lit up was worth it though.
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  • Ain't no 1200km like 1200km up a mountain at night (never mind that 1km in the wrong direction). View at the top of Seoul all lit up was worth it though.
    I hope you meant 1200m, otherwise I really have to ask where did you find 1200km high mountain.

  • I did. I'm unaccustomed to your silly foreign measures.
  • Wait, so was that 1m in the wrong direction? =P
  • No, that one's right. We went down the wrong path for a while, it started looking wrong, then we turned around and went the right way.
  • edited January 2012
    Be advised that spicy Korean food is the spiciest food I've ever eaten. I had some Korean stir-fry once. I was warned it was spicy by the owner's wife, who was taking orders. I thought it couldn't possibly be hotter than the vindaloo from my favorite Indian place--which is renowned for its ability to make grown men cry and its reputation of being so hot as to be almost inedible to those who haven't climbed the Ladder of Spiciness and ventured into the Capsicum Lands beyond. My friend once described it as, "A volcano of spicy pain in your mouth."

    Holy shit. By the end of the meal, I wished I had a glass of vindaloo sauce to cleanse my palette. The owner of the restaurant was sitting nearby, eating the same thing with a flop sweat, and tears running down his face. He managed to choke out, "Pablo...thank you...for this dericious spicy food...you have made for us...hahh...hah..huuhhhhhh." He then turned to me and went, "Spicy...good?" I went, "Huhhh," and nodded in accord and finished my meal, realizing my eyes were running and I was all sweaty, too.

    And that's why I stick to galbi, bulgogi, and bibimbap nowadays.
    Post edited by WindUpBird on
  • And that's why I stick to galbi, bulgogi, and bibimbap nowadays.
    I love Korean food. I want some now. I like the dish where you put rice, beef/meat, and pepper paste and wrap it in leaves and eat it.
  • Totally. Also Korean-Mex (Korexican?). Bulgogi burritos with pepper paste FTW.
  • Yes. All of the above.
    I've found that while Korean food is spicy, I eat in the restaurants in Flushing a lot and I have never had the "OMG so spicy it is pain!" experience. I would just get up a good sweat and go Haaa haaaa.
    How long are you in Seoul?
  • I am curious, if I can eat habaneros without much issue how much of a problem would I have with spicy Korean food? I love spicy food so I must try this if it actually has a good kick.
  • edited January 2012
    I am curious, if I can eat habaneros without much issue how much of a problem would I have with spicy Korean food? I love spicy food so I must try this if it actually has a good kick.
    The korean food I had makes every habanero encounter I've had (and I've had some bad ones) see like baby's first spicy taco. Seriously. It may depend on where you get it (I got mine at a little mom-n-pop cafeteria in Champaign where all the Korean kids eat), but I felt like my entire GI tract had been lit aflame. It was awesome.

    Mind you, that's the spicy dishes. Other korean food, like bulgogi and galbi, is really mild. Also, that Korean dish only narrowly beats the effects of walking into a good Indian place, ordering a Lamb Vindaloo, and asking for it "India spicy." That's like carpet-nuking your tongue and then salting the earth. That Jeyeuk Bokkum was a spicy apocalypse. It was like an archangel broke the Seventh Seal and the Four Horsemen delivered fiery wrath upon my taste buds.

    Post edited by WindUpBird on
  • That Jeyeuk Bokkum was a spicy apocalypse. It was like an archangel broke the Seventh Seal and the Four Horsemen delivered fiery wrath upon my taste buds.
    I must find the vegan equivalent to this. That description sounds awesome. I have had some Indian food a friend made me a while back light me on fire but outside that I have not had anything I would consider that spicy in a while. I will have to see if I can find somewhere to get good spicy Korean food, well if there is anywhere near that makes it close to authentic.
  • I've had Jeyeuk Bokkum before, and I totally did not die. Also, I know this wasn't because it was Americanized, because most of the people in the various restaurants were Koreans. I think that you had special spicy pork. Most of the time for me I think that someone who is okay with spicy Indian food and hot peppers should be able to deal.

    Also, Vegan Korean food is hard to come by because a lot of the sauces and stocks use shrimp and seafood in them, but you can find Buddhist places. There was a place near school called the Village Temple, and it had a very good pickle selection. I used to go there before Maya class.
  • I've had Jeyeuk Bokkum before, and I totally did not die. Also, I know this wasn't because it was Americanized, because most of the people in the various restaurants were Koreans. I think that you had special spicy pork. Most of the time for me I think that someone who is okay with spicy Indian food and hot peppers should be able to deal.
    Probably. This shit shamed the Indian food I've had, and I'm always the Vindaloo guy at the table.

  • WUB: None of the food I've had has been that spicy. Mostly just the right kind of spicy where it sweats you up a bit and when you walk back outside it definitely doesn't feel 25F. Whatever it was I had for dinner last night was coming close though. It was squid and veggies just swimming in that spicy sauce they give you with bibimbap and some magical fried shrimp on the side (among other things). When we finished the squiddy madness the waitress was beckoned over, Korean was exchanged and then she came back, worked some magic, and all of a sudden there was delicious fried rice.

    Gomi: I'm gonna be in Seoul for a few days more before I go to Busan and from there to Fukuoka by superfast hydrofoil because why the hell not.

    I love that on any given street there's someone in a little stall selling something that smells delicious. And Haechi's (the city mascot, both cartoony and not) everywhere and that thing is adorable.

    Seoul also has a very clever blind person navigation system built into the major streets and the subways. There are bricks with raised lines to walk you in a direction and then a bunch of bricks with 6x6 pips on them to indicated a change (stairs, turning, edge of a subway platform, etc.). Does big cities in the states have something comparable?
  • Shit. Now I really want some Korean.
  • edited January 2012
    Seoul also has a very clever blind person navigation system built into the major streets and the subways. There are bricks with raised lines to walk you in a direction and then a bunch of bricks with 6x6 pips on them to indicated a change (stairs, turning, edge of a subway platform, etc.). Does big cities in the states have something comparable?
    Regarding the bricks with raised lines: Nothing that elaborate (or cool!) to the best of my knowledge, though usually crosswalks have bumped or grooved concrete at the corner of the sidewalk. They look something like this, which sounds like what you described:
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    Post edited by trogdor9 on
  • WUB: None of the food I've had has been that spicy. Mostly just the right kind of spicy where it sweats you up a bit and when you walk back outside it definitely doesn't feel 25F. Whatever it was I had for dinner last night was coming close though. It was squid and veggies just swimming in that spicy sauce they give you with bibimbap and some magical fried shrimp on the side (among other things). When we finished the squiddy madness the waitress was beckoned over, Korean was exchanged and then she came back, worked some magic, and all of a sudden there was delicious fried rice.

    Gomi: I'm gonna be in Seoul for a few days more before I go to Busan and from there to Fukuoka by superfast hydrofoil because why the hell not.

    I love that on any given street there's someone in a little stall selling something that smells delicious. And Haechi's (the city mascot, both cartoony and not) everywhere and that thing is adorable.

    Seoul also has a very clever blind person navigation system built into the major streets and the subways. There are bricks with raised lines to walk you in a direction and then a bunch of bricks with 6x6 pips on them to indicated a change (stairs, turning, edge of a subway platform, etc.). Does big cities in the states have something comparable?
    Tokyo has the brick lines for the sight-impaired, but not NY, although they have them as warnings, such as the subway platform edge and stairs.
    Gochujang I think is the sauce? I need to buy some. I want to make more Korean food.

  • Yeah, Orlando's got those on the corners too, but that's not quite what I mean. These run the whole sidewalk. I'll take a pic while I'm out today, but until then here's some crude ASCII to show: * = pips, | or - = lines □ = normal
    *□□□□□□
    *□□□□□□
    *------****
    *□□□□ ****
    *□□□□□|
    *□□□□□|
  • That is exactly the sauce, or at least something that sounded very similar. I'm pretty sure Sunghee said there was a slight difference between the two.
  • edited January 2012
    This is what I meant by the sidewalk things. They're everywhere.
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    Good evening ladies and gentlemen and thanks for coming you tonight. I'd like you to put your hands together and welcome the Blue Brothers.
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  • edited January 2012
    This is what I meant by the sidewalk things.
    We have those Near all public transport stations and around major public roads. You won't find them in small towns, but you will in malls and shopping streets in the Netherlands. This is in addition to foot traffic lights that beep when you are allowed to cross.
    Post edited by Bronzdragon on
  • Same in Bogotá. Either grooves or raised bumps.
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